Returning characters in a string between square brackets

spknight

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I download data from our payroll and one of the cells contains the employee name and payroll number in the following format:

Smith, Alan [10]
Taylor, Annabel [184]
Sutton, Doug [7453]

Using an Excel formula, how do I extract the values between the square brackets?

Thanks for any help
 

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